Someone ought to be able to make a profit. If you ask Compaq, they'll tell you they're doing well in the consumer market. Compaq is getting whacked at the low-end corporate market.
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The wild card here is if they can rebuild their consumer franchise. In order to do that, they need to have some aggressively priced products below 1,000 in the marketplace for Christmas of next year. I think they can do that.
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Not a lot of people converted to Windows 95. It happened much more slowly than people expected, and it was really skewed into the business and corporate market as opposed to the home market. That reflected on the retail sales.
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